Desktop Icons messed up


  1. charlescc
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    Desktop Icons messed up




    please help i dont know whats wrong with them, it displays the recycle bin and computer icons just fine but the others are messed up
    Last edited by Brink; 27 Dec 2010 at 12:28. Reason: attached image
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  3. richc46
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    Welcome this may help
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  4. charlescc
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    I ran it and restarted the icons are still messed up
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  6. Brink
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    Hello Charles, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    It's hard to tell in the screenshot, but it looks like your shortcut arrow overlay icons are messed up instead. See if downloading and merging the lnk (LNK) option in the tutorial below may be able to fix this for you.

    Default File Type Associations - Restore

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  7. charlescc
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    thank you Brink it worked and thanks rich for also helping =)
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  8. richc46
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    Glad that it worked out. Sorry that I could not quite see the problem with the screen shot.
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  10. Brink
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    You're most welcome Charles. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. :)
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